(UN Environment Program, Baku, 4 December 2024) COP29 held in Baku, Azerbaijan, offered an important opportunity for governments and other global stakeholders to put in place the mechanisms, tools and signals required for countries to continue implementing their contributions to the Paris...
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2024/12/31
Country: France, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Africa Confidential, Cambridge, 20 December 2024) France’s TotalEnergies is making a final push to win United States funding for its liquefied natural gas project in northern Mozambique before Donald J Trump is inaugurated US President on 20 January. Total wants to restart the project held up...
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2024/12/31
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Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: Oil Change International
(Oil Change Int'l, Washington, 20 December 2024) OECD members have failed to pass a landmark deal to end over $40 billion in public subsidies to fossil fuels. Despite last-ditch attempts by senior government and ...
2024/11/30
Country: Canada, Finland, Germany, Sweden
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada, Finnvera
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Mining.COM, Toronto, 21 November 2024) Troilus Gold (TSX: TLG) continues to receive the financial backing of global export credit agencies (ECAs), this time from Export Development Canada (EDC), to support the development of its copper-gold project in Quebec. On Thursday, the company announced...
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2024/11/30
ECAs: Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: European Union, G7, Oil, Gas and Mining
(JD Supra, Sausalito, 5 November 2024) The Minerals Security Partnership Finance Network (MSPFN), a joint financing body, was announced by the United States, the European Commission, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Australia, and nine other nations on 23 September 2024 at the United Nations...
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2024/11/30
Issue: BRIC countries, Climate Change, End Coal Financing, European Union, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(Global Trade Review, London, 27 November 2024) The two-week-long UN Climate Change Conference (Cop29) ended last week with a contentious pledge by wealthy countries to increase climate finance. While the commitment was criticised by developing nations as insufficient, objections from some of...
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2024/11/30
Country: Australia, Canada, Norway, United Kingdom, USA
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: Friends of the Earth USA
(Friends of the Earth, Washington, 21 November 2024) Today at the conclusion of the OECD Export Credit Group negotiations, participating nations failed to reach an agreement on fossil fuel finance, despite scientists’ repeated calls for urgent climate action. While no formal conclusion has been...
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2024/11/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Atradius, Bpifrance, COFACE, Denmark EKF, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States, SACE S.p.A., Swiss Export Risk Insurance, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Oil Change International
(Philadelphia Tribune, 22 November 2024) The EU, U.S. and other countries are hammering out a plan to throttle tens of billions of dollars of financial support for foreign oil and gas projects, weeks before President-elect Donald Trump moves into the White House. Negotiators are working toward...
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2024/11/30
Country: China, France, Italy, Korea, United Kingdom
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Barrons/AFP, Paris, 15 November 2024) French energy giant TotalEnergies, recipient of Italian (& French?) ECA funding, was aware of accusations of abuses committed by soldiers charged with protecting its gas site in Mozambique as early as 2021. "Complaints of extortion, disappearances and...
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2024/10/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(Hacker News, Mountain View CA, 17 October 2024) As mounting climate concerns cause extreme weather events, & global efforts intensify to keep warming below 1.5°C, Oxfam calls on the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) to cease funding fossil fuel projects to instead champion...
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2024/10/31
Country: Malaysia, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Bloomberg, New York, 11 October 2024) The US Export-Import Bank authorized a $690 million loan to help build a petrochemical plant in Malaysia, despite objections from climate activists who say the project flouts Biden-Harris administration promises to halt financing for fossil fuel projects...
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2024/10/31
Issue: Climate Change, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: Bank Track, Friends of the Earth USA, Oil Change International
(Global Trade Review, London, 14 October 2024) Ahead of crunch talks within the OECD Arrangement, climate groups are pressuring the US, Korea and Japan to agree to a comprehensive proposal that would halt billions of dollars in fossil fuel financing each year. In recent days, over 40...
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2024/10/31
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(Innovation News, London, 31 October 2024) UK Export Finance (UKEF), the government’s export credit agency, will offer financial support for overseas projects to source critical minerals. Securing contracts that increase the UK’s ability to source critical minerals will help the UK build...
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2024/10/31
Country: China, France, USA
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Mongabay, Menlo Park, 17 October 2024) A group of 28 NGOs have written to 34 banks, insurance companies and the Chinese government, urging them to deny financing and other support for oil and gas projects in Uganda. The letters, written by U.S.-based Climate Rights International (CRI) and 27...
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2024/10/31
Country: USA
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Africa Report, Paris, 1 October 2024) A new financing network and closer cooperation with Angola, Zambia and Tanzania all aim to challenge China’s grip on the continent’s resources. The United States and its allies consolidated their cooperation along a range of fronts during the UN General...
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